what in the longdark spitting-pit is that

[inourhead]

This was a bad idea this was a bad idea this was a bad idea.

Holly runs as fast as she can but the demon's faster. She has no idea where Lightning's gotten to; maybe he found a tree to climb. She on the other hand has been diverted into a treeless hill and she's careening down a slope, trying very hard not to trip.

And the demon's gaining on her.

She's never seen anything like it and neither has Crystal; maybe Book knows what it is but Book's asleep. It's mostly mouth - it looks like a cross between a floorlength mirror of a mouth and a snake to propel the mouth along.

And Holly's not fast enough.

The mouth catches her.





But it doesn't hurt.

Where are we?

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with Minus (kappa)

with Mark (kappa)

with Max (Benedict)

in Terraria (kappa)

with Emma (Marri)

with Erin (Rockeye)

Comments

[inourhead]

...Weird.

Holly goes and peers at it.

[aestrix]

It is really quite disgusting! The grass is red and bloody and dripping. It would go squish, under their feet, if Holly cared to walk on it. There's a tree, over there - the trunk looks grey and diseased and the leaves look like gobs of flesh. There is what looks like an eyeball, sticking out of the ground, over there. It woggles and turns to look at Holly.

[inourhead]

Gugchk. Nasty.

What a pity troportation requires touching things.

Holly decides to leave this grossness alone for now.

[aestrix]

This is pretty wise.

(The monsters would have come to get her if she lingered any longer.)

[inourhead]

Holly checks on the sun. Time to loiter near her house yet?

[aestrix]

Yep! Time to loiter, the sky's starting to turn purple.

[inourhead]

She goes and parks with her armor and sword by the door to her house.

[aestrix]

Dead things show up soon enough! And the flying eyeball things. They are here to try and kill Holly and Crystal.

[inourhead]

Holly is here to try to kill them right back. Sword with one hand, emergency troportation ability to suck heat out of the monsters and into a woodblock in her other hand.

[aestrix]

She can take on the dead things pretty well.

There's a light, in the sky, small and bright and fast and hurtling towards the ground.

It nails a dead thing. The dead thing dies and explodes hilariously. The tiny bright thing sparkles and glows brightly, right there on the ground.

[inourhead]

Well, it's shiny and it fell.

She picks it up.

[aestrix]

It fizzles a little, in their hand, but feels remarkably cool. It's a stylized star shape, and it slowly shifts through a number of pale colors. Pink, blue, purple, yellow - it's quite pretty.

This is likely the falling star the guide mentioned.

[inourhead]

Okay. Cool. She puts it in her pocket. She nips around to where the bunnies are and tires one out. She goes back to her house door to see if more will fall, and incidentally kill dead things.

[aestrix]

Dead things die!

Another one falls, a greater distance away from the house than the last one. Unfortunately this one does not kill a dead thing on its way down.

[inourhead]

She's doing pretty well versus dead things. She gauges the dead thing population between her and this star.

[aestrix]

Reasonably sparse, actually. All of them make a beeline for her, instead of hanging around in any one place.

[inourhead]

She makes a run for it.

[aestrix]

She makes it to the star without issue!

The star consolidates with its fellow neatly. Now she has two.

[inourhead]

Good. She heads back for the house.

[aestrix]

There are dead things and eyeballs in the way, but they are no match for being hit with a sword.

No other stars fall in the area for the rest of the night.

[inourhead]

When the sun comes back, Holly drowses a bunny, swaps them some food, and lets Crystal take over.

Crystal digs in the hope of finding a wider variety of metal.

[aestrix]

Crystal hits a cave.

It's dark, in there.

[inourhead]

She goes and gets a torch.